Postbank sale may fail over target price: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

5 July 2008, 10:02 am

The sale of Germany's biggest retail bank Deutsche Postbank could fail because the price potential bidders are willing to pay does not meet the expectations of the lender's parent, Deutsche Post, a German magazine reported on Saturday.... read more

Germany Wants European Athletic Championships (Deutsche Welle)

5 July 2008, 7:15 am

Germany has set its sights on hosting the 2012 or 2014 European athletics championships in Nuremberg, the nation's athletics supremo Clemens Prokop said on Saturday.... read more

Germany sets sight on athletics Euro-event 2012 or 2014 (EARTHtimes.org)

5 July 2008, 5:10 am

Nuremberg, Germany - Germany has set its sights on hosting the 2012 or 2014 European athletics championships in Nuremberg, the nation's athletics supremo Clemens Prokop said on Saturday. We are interested in principle in both championships. The stad...... read more

Health Clinic Treats Germany's Few Uninsured (NPR)

4 July 2008, 7:54 pm

Only .2 percent of Germany's legal residents are uninsured, compared with nearly 18 percent of Americans who have no coverage. Many clinics for the uninsured in the U.S. can't meet the demand of people in need of free care. But it's a different story in Germany.... read more

Germany reaches tax data deal with offshore centre (Financial Times)

4 July 2008, 7:29 pm

Germany signed its first tax information exchange agreement with an offshore centre yesterday, in a sign of the continuing crackdown on secrecy in the wake of the Liechtenstein tax evasion scandal.... read more

Wine: Germany calling (Independent)

4 July 2008, 4:32 pm

If you think of German wine as cheap, sweet and basic, you're in excellent company. When the go-ahead German wine company Zimmermann-Graeff & Müller commissioned market researchers to find out what UK consumers thought of German wine, "cheap, sweet and basic" came the response. Ten years ago, it lo... read more